Max Jackson
@mxjxn.eth
fuck technical assessment interviews. Nothing on earth gives me more anxiety than some stranger watching me code and judging me. 110% likely to fuck up and make bad decisions and overlook my mistakes. Im about to quit programming for a living before I do that ever again.
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
I always thought it was a far better design to come up with some realistic (but toy, not "real work") thing, brief it in a github repo, give almost no other context, and then give it to someone to work on however they want. Then you can see what they do - especially see how they communicate around it (or not).
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Max Jackson
@mxjxn.eth
yes honestly. only jobs with technical assessments that I've gotten were ones that asked me to build the type of thing I was looking for a job doing. Infuriated right now.
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